Abdur Rahman Khan was considered a strong ruler who re-established the writ of the Afghan government after the disarray that followed the second Anglo-Afghan war.

He held his second cousin once removed Ladislaus the Posthumous, the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, ( born in 1440 ) as a prisoner and attempted to extend his guardianship over him in perpetuity to maintain his control over Lower Austria.

He was the second son of Bolesław I the Brave, but the eldest born from his third wife Emmilda, daughter of Dobromir, possible ruler of Lusatia.

He aspired to attach the Ottoman forces permanently to his interests, and hoped to achieve this by giving his second daughter, Theodora, in marriage to their ruler, despite differences of creed and the disparity of age.

Born in 1826, Francisco Solano López became the second and final ruler of the López dynasty.

Rhys was the second son of Gruffydd ap Rhys, ruler of part of Deheubarth, and Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd.

Ieyasu then named his third and favorite son, Tokugawa Hidetada, as heir, since his second son was adopted by another rising power: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the future ruler of all Japan.

In 897, a Zaidi ruler, Yahya al-Hadi ila ' l Haqq, founded a line of Imams, whose Shiite dynasty survived until the second half of the 20th century.

** Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, second ruler of Golconda

* Idriss II, second ruler of the Idrisid dynasty in the Maghreb al-Aqsa ( nowadays Morocco ).

* Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, second ruler of the North African Zirid dynaty.

He was the second son of Lorenzo de ' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.

* Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.

Vijay Sen the second ruler of this dynasty defeated the last Pala emperor Madanapala and established his reign.

The second Bosnian ruler, Ban Kulin, allegedly presided over nearly three decades of peace and stability during which he strengthened the country's economy through treaties with Dubrovnik and Venice.

In May at the head of a united Christian army he started on the road to Edessa, but he abandoned the campaign, when he secured the release by Nur ad-Din, the ruler of Syria, of 6, 000 Christian prisoners captured in various battles since the second Crusade.

Most historians consider Caliph Muawiyah ( 661 – 80 ) to have been the second ruler of the Umayyad dynasty, even though he was the first to assert the Umayyads ' right to rule on a dynastic principle.

* Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, ruler of the Tirol married firstly Philippine Welser, a bourgeois girl though very wealthy ; their children were given a separate title and the issue of Ferdinand's second ( and equal ) marriage were preferred.

His eldest son, Theodosius, would be a ruler of the East from Constantinople, the second one, Tiberius, of the West with the capital in Rome.

They consistently place their first settlement in Aleppo, where they remained until, siding the sons of Ali and taking part in the Battle of Karbala, they were expelled by Yazid, the second of the Omayyad Caliphs, in 680 A. D. Thence they first to Kerman, and eventually to Sistan where they were hospitably received by Shams-ud-Din, ruler of that country.

Victorious in 1347, John Kantakouzenos ruled as co-emperor until John V's attack on his son Matthew in 1352 led to a second civil war. In this second civil war John V asked the ruler of Serbia, Stephan Dushan for help and Dushan obliged by sending 4, 000 Serbian horsemen to his aid.

) on behalf of his cousin Ahmad ibn Isma ' il ibn Ahmad, second Samanian ruler.

– 2 April 1118, was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who became the first Count of Edessa and then the second ruler and first titled King of Jerusalem.

() was the second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

The second is between eastern Australia and western South America.

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

That same year he received a second round of funding from the Rosenwald Fund to travel South, and he spent extended time at Atlanta University.

Bangladesh progressed to the second round for the first time, after defeating India, and they later went on to defeat South Africa in the second round.

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

At the second tier, Dartmouth forms part of the Dartmouth and Kingswear ward of South Hams District Council, which returns three councillors.

After a 17 point second semi final loss to South Melbourne defeated Fitzroy ( who had beaten South Melbourne ) in the challenge final: Essendon 8. 15 ( 63 ) to Fitzroy 6. 10 ( 46 ).

* 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

As part of school work, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges.

The Gibraltar area and the rest of the South Iberian Peninsula was part of the Byzantine Empire during the second part of the 6th century, later reverting to the Visigoth Kingdom.

In 1947, Labor appointed a second Australian Governor-General, William McKell, who was in office as the Labor Premier of New South Wales.

In the second partition ( 1793 ) the whole of Greater Poland was absorbed by Prussia, becoming part of the province of South Prussia.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales.

In the one-day series Cronje managed just one fifty but with the ball he was economical and took his career best figures of 5 / 32, becoming the second South African to take five wickets in an ODI.

In South Africa's next Test series against Sri Lanka Cronje scored his second Test century, 122 in the second Test in Colombo ; the victory margin of an innings and 208 runs is a South African record.